Offensive Patent Portfolio Races

Jell, Florian; Henkel, Joachim; Wallin, Martin W.

doi:10.1016/j.lrp.2016.03.003

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“…Successful patent applications are a well‐established invention indicator, but they mainly summarize the number of technological inventions. They may suffer from strategic motives such as protective patenting, which inflates the number of patents and lowers the validity of patent counts (Artz et al, 2010; Blind, Cremers, and Mueller, 2009; Jell, Henkel, and Wallin, 2017). To ensure that our patent‐based analysis captures the relevance of firms’ inventions, we reestimated our models using patent citations as a dependent variable.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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The Effect of Family Involvement on Innovation Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Board Social Capital

Bendig¹,

Foege²,

Endriß³

et al. 2020

J of Product Innov Manag

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Innovation is an essential and yet puzzling part of family firms' strategic focus. While family firms are generally characterized as conservative regarding their research and development (R&D) activities, researchers have recently argued that family firms can still achieve innovation-based competitive advantages. Seeking to understand the link between family influence and the outcomes of innovation, we suggest that it is necessary not only to observe the depth of family involvement, but also to differentiate between technological inventions and market innovations. We further posit that the board members' social capital constitutes an important contingency for this link. We, therefore, investigate the relationship between family involvement and two different outcomes: the number of the firm's inventions and the market relevance of innovations. Our analysis of S&P 500 firms comprises 1.85 million patents and manual evaluations of 1774 product announcements. The results of our estimations suggest that family involvement is negatively related to the number of inventions and positively related to the market relevance of innovations. They further show that internal and external board social capital moderate the relationship between family involvement and the number of inventions. This study adds to the discussion about family firm innovation by using socioemotional wealth to explain heterogeneity in innovation patterns and revealing that relational resources derived from board social capital are crucial boundary conditions for families' influence on technological inventions. Taken together, it works toward a more holistic view of innovation in family-influenced firms.

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confidence: 99%

The Effect of Family Involvement on Innovation Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Board Social Capital

Bendig¹,

Foege²,

Endriß³

et al. 2020

J of Product Innov Manag

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“…With regards to open innovation, a number of areas have been studied, such as motivations (Appleyard & Chesbrough, 2017) and trade-offs between openness and protection (Raasch et al, 2009;Knudsen & Mortensen, 2011). In the area of IP protection, several papers have dealt with how organizations make protection decisions (Gallié & Legros, 2012), the use of licensing (Gallié & Legros, 2012;Großmann et al, 2016), standard catch-up collection and use of patents (Schmidt, 2013;Jell et al, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Understanding the Strategy-Innovation Link in an Era of Disruptions

Breunig¹,

Skjølsvik²

2020

TIM Review

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strategy from 2007-2017 and map to what degree and how innovation and strategy have been treated together in prior research. We identify themes covered in this research and reveal that the papers that link these research areas are extensively cited. Still, a lot of work remains to be done, and fusing core properties of strategy theory with recent ideas from innovation literature we believe is both obtainable and prudent at the present time.The structure of this paper can be described as follows. First, we present extant strategy and innovation management theory to highlight similarities and differences across these two bodies of research and pose our research question. Second, we explain the method applied in the search, review, and analysis of the reviewed papers. Third, we present the findings from our analysis of the extant body of literature addressing strategy and innovation. And, finally, we offer a concluding discussion with implications on future developments for research and practice. TheoryGoing back to Schumpeter and the notion of 'creative destruction' (Schumpeter, 1949), the need for innovation

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“…Defensive strategies seek to provide a firm the freedom to operate and commercialize its invention without hindrance from patents that belong to others (Rudy, & Black, 2018;Somaya, 2012). They are helpful when there is high fragmentation in the market for patentees, and firms are unable to arrange licensing due to transaction costs (Jell et al, 2017). Defensive strategies are thought to be reactionary, focused on protecting the current value of IP (Somaya, 2003;Rudy & Black, 2018 (Rudy & Black, 2018).…”

Section: Defensive Ip Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

Study on the various intellectual property management strategies used and implemented by ICT firms for business intelligence

Shaikha¹,

Singhal²

2019

JISIB

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Software technology is seeing enormous growth as it is used in all fields of technology. It is continuously evolving at a rapid pace and has a short span of the technological life cycle. The use of the software is not restricted only to information and communication technology but is used in all fields of technology. In many cases, the inventive step of a product or service lies solely in the software. Hence, the software plays a crucial role in all fields of technology. However, ease of copying poses a financial risk for the software industry, thereby creating major disincentives to the development of innovation. Still, the technology is changing very fast and firms investing in this technology expect quick returns on their innovation investments. Strategies for generating and managing intellectual property have subsequently taken center stage for information and communication technology companies, and patents have become an important feature providing maximum protection for any technology. Hence, intellectual property rights strategies in general and patenting strategies especially play a crucial role in the information and communication technology industry to be globally competitive. Firms never publish or disclose their intellectual property strategies; hence, this study makes use of the literature review to highlight various intellectual property management strategies used by information and communication technology firms for managing their intellectual property. These strategies can be offensive or defensive and may be used as proactive or reactive depending on various aspects such as market, territory, technology, or time. The insights provided in this work may help the research community from the IT domain in industry and academia to learn and modify their strategies for patent acquisition.

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Offensive Patent Portfolio Races

Cited by 20 publications

References 48 publications

The Effect of Family Involvement on Innovation Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Board Social Capital

The Effect of Family Involvement on Innovation Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Board Social Capital

Understanding the Strategy-Innovation Link in an Era of Disruptions

Study on the various intellectual property management strategies used and implemented by ICT firms for business intelligence

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